Remove real type

strtr strtr at spam.com
Sat Apr 24 17:05:04 PDT 2010


BCS Wrote:

> Hello Strtr,
> 
> > BCS Wrote:
> > 
> >> OTOH, some would argue that Walter is still right by saying that if
> >> you don't know what is happening, then you've got a bad algorithm.
> >> 
> > Yes, all algorithms created by genetic programming are bad ;) 
> 
> Note I didn't say what I thought. (As it happens, I think GA is only valid 
> as a last resort.)
I was talking about GP in specific, but talking about GA in general I would say it could be a great beginning in a lot of scientific research I've seen. Time and time again intuition has been proven a bad gamble in those situations. Especially with the enormous amount of information streaming out of most scientific devices you don't want to manually sift through all the data.

> 
> > And your brain is one big bad algorithm as well of course..
> 
> Just because I don't understand an algo doesn't imply that no one does. As 
> for the brain, there are people who don't consider the brain the result of 
> anything remotely like GA. But this is not the place to argue that one...
What I meant was that I know of nobody who would claim they understand all that is happening in the brain, thus according to your statement making it a bad algorithm. Unrelated of whether it there is a GA basis or not.

> 
> >> However you cut it, these cases are by far the minority.
> >> 
> > But growing.
> 
> Yeah, but (I hope) they will never come anywhere near the majority.

A majority wouldn't be necessary for such portability to be a valid issue. I think D is in general an awesome language for artificial intelligence which might hint that the percentage such D users could become significant. 





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